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• How Birds Migrate: The Compass, the Map, and the Fuel Engineering of Flight
  A bar-tailed godwit flies eleven thousand kilometres non-stop across the Pacific — no food, no water, no rest. Bird migration is not a journey; it is a piece of biological engineering with a compass, a calendar, and a metabolic budget. Here is how it works.
• Apollo 11 by the Numbers: What It Actually Took to Reach the Moon
  Fifty-seven years on, the Apollo 11 story is usually told as destiny. The numbers tell a better story — of a computer with less memory than a car key, a landing with twenty-five seconds of fuel left, and 400,000 people doing the arithmetic that made one small step possible.